This extremely rare embossed French cuirass shown below is dated around 1560-1570 and is all yours for just $38,000 over at the faganarms website.What do you think of this piece of armour? Please leave a comment below.

One of our readers sent the email below today asking if we could help identify the object in the photo’s. Given we have thousands of visitors interested in armour I thought I’d open this request up to everyone.
Please read the email and leave a comment if you know what it is,…
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The videos below show how to make a sword. In fact it’s no ordinary sword, it’s a pattern-welded sword with a serpent at its core.
I really enjoyed the videos below created by Niels Provos and wanted to share them with you here, Niels is a brilliant security researcher in his day…
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The main shield is made from plastozote foam, with a fibreglass core and then latexed.
Then the figure was cast in poly rubber. The hole that the figure sites in is a rubber negative casting so that it fit…
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